Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderAllen Fire Department
Allen, TX · Collin County. Allen Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 4 stations and 82 total personnel. The department also provides EMS services. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 82
- Total personnel
- 4
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Allen Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Texas average.
- Top 6%
- national personnel size
- +141%
- vs. Texas average
- 4
- stations
- $1,803,126
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
National percentile ranks this department's personnel headcount against every listable U.S. department with reported staffing; the state comparison uses the same personnel figure against its own state's average. Both feed the verdict sentence and the chips above.
A staffing, equipment, EMS-integration, and federal-grant-funding composite benchmarked against every other USFA-registered department nationally, not a safety rating, response-time measure, or comparison of fire risk. Dimensions with no data on file are excluded and their weight redistributed, never counted as zero.
Allen Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Allen, TX (Collin County), with 4 stations and 82 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,377 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $1,803,126.
- National personnel rank #1,377 of 22,440
- TX personnel rank #79 of 1,231
- 4.88 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 22 other listed departments in Collin County
Allen Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
82 Top 6% higher than 94% of 22,440 departments
Listable U.S. fire departments, banded by total personnel
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Source HIFLD fire-station registry · 2026-09-06
Dispatch plate
Sheet CN501 · Allen Fire Department, TX 82 personnel · 4 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 82
- STA-FEW 4 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,377
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Harlem-Roscoe Fir…
- FEMA-MID $1.8M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Harlem-Roscoe Fire Protection District, IL (+ 0 personnel)
Career/paid HIFLD roster counts, station rows, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer, and FEMA AFG/SAFER book for this FDID, not a readiness rating.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every TX department.
- Allen (this dept) 82
- High Shaker Road Loudo…, NY 82
- Near Harlem-Roscoe Fir…, IL 82
- Near Prattville, AL 82
- Near Pagosa Fire Prote…, CO 82
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Allen, TX
- County
- Collin County
- FDID
- CN501
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | EMW-2009-FC-0222 | $1,803,126 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Texas average
How Allen Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Texas. In-state it ranks #79 of 1,231 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,377 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 4
- State fire deaths/yr
- 241
- TX departments
- 1,879
County roster fringe
Allen Fire Department is 7.5% of Collin County roster mass
The county lists 27 departments totaling 1,099 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 93% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
4.88 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (4 stations / 82 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Harlem-Roscoe Fire Protection District, IL (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 82 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every TX department.